Proverbs 18:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

An intelligent mind acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:9

Give your servant, therefore, an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil, for who can govern this great people of yours?”

Job 8:10

Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding?

Proverbs 1:5

let the wise, too, hear and gain in learning and the discerning acquire skill,

Proverbs 10:14

The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.

Proverbs 15:14

The mind of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

Proverbs 15:31

The ear that heeds wholesome admonition will lodge among the wise.

Proverbs 23:23

Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

Proverbs 4:5

Get wisdom; get insight: do not forget nor turn away from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 4:7

The beginning of wisdom is this: get wisdom, and whatever else you get, get insight.

Proverbs 9:9

Give instruction to the wise, and they will become wiser still; teach the righteous, and they will gain in learning.

Luke 10:39

She had a sister named Mary, who sat at Jesus’s feet and listened to what he was saying.

Ephesians 1:17

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him,

James 1:5

If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you.